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WOJNA, IMIGRACJA I POLSKA DIASPORA W TORONTO W OPOWIADANIACH ANDREW J. BORKOWSKIEGO

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Branach-Kallas A.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2014
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vol. 40
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issue 4(154)
95-108
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The article focuses on Andrew J. Borkowski’s collection of short-stories Copernicus Avenue published in 2011 and awarded the 2012 Toronto Book Award. Written by the son of a Polish war veteran, Copernicus Avenue shows how deeply the trauma of the Second World War has affected the Polish diaspora in Canada. The article begins with an analysis of the stories located in Poland, illustrating the ambivalent moral choices of the protagonists during the war. The traumatic memories of war haunt the protagonists in their New World homes and influence the lives of their descendants as well. On the example of three characters, I illustrate the different approaches to diaspora and homeland in the Polish post-war community in Toronto. I also trace the complex itineraries of the characters, showing that the concept of roots shapes their identity as much as the complicated routes of migrations. As a result, the Polish diaspora in Copernicus Avenue appears a heterogeneous space of community and antagonism, solidarity and exclusion.
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Crypts, Phantoms, and Cultural Trauma: A Hauntological Approach to Recent British First World War Fiction

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Branach-Kallas A.
Avant
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2017
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vol. 8
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issue 2
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In my article, I analyse selected British novels about the First World War published at the turn of the 20th century, from the theoretical perspectives proposed by Maria Torok and Nicolas Abraham in The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis. Pat Barker in Toby’s Room (2012) and Sue Gee in Earth and Heaven (2000) imagine their protagonists’ difficult evolution from melancholia to mourning after the loss of brothers and/or lovers, at the front. The concepts of incorporation and illness of mourning are used to explore the complicated process of bereavement in Barker’s novel, where hauntology becomes a form of honte-ology, from the French honte, shame. In Gee’s beautifully melancholic novel, the haunting trauma of loss is subtly evoked by images of empty fields, neglected farms, urban vistas filled with spectral figures of unemployed veterans. Moreover, Earth and Heaven affects the reader so deeply because the understated pain of loss becomes movingly tangible after the accidental death of the central protagonist’s six-year-old son, which seems to “condense” the pain of war bereavements a decade after the conflict. My intention is also to demonstrate that Sebastian Faulks in Birdsong (1993), Esther Freud in Summer at Gaglow (1997) and Pat Barker in Another World (1998) approach the Great War as a phantom haunting their contemporary protagonists. The persistence of the unknown past has a profound impact on these characters and only by trying to relate to the Great War do they find answers to their existential dilemmas. This directs our attention to the incomplete processes of First World War mourning, the persistence of endless grief and the potential continuity of unresolved trauma(s) in transgenerational memory. The five novels under consideration also problematise the issue of silence-the unsayable family secret and/or the collective disregard for the national past. The psychoanalytic concept of crypt illuminates the relation between present and past in these fictions and makes it possible to draw a connection with the sociological concept of cultural trauma, referring to certain foundational events constructed as traumatic from the point of view of the British collectivity. 
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Crypts, Phantoms, and Cultural Trauma: A Hauntological Approach to Recent British First World War Fiction

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Branach-Kallas A.
Avant
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2017
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vol. 8
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issue 2
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In my article, I analyse selected British novels about the First World War published at the turn of the 20th century, from the theoretical perspectives proposed by Maria Torok and Nicolas Abraham in The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis. Pat Barker in Toby’s Room (2012) and Sue Gee in Earth and Heaven (2000) imagine their protagonists’ difficult evolution from melancholia to mourning after the loss of brothers and/or lovers, at the front. The concepts of incorporation and illness of mourning are used to explore the complicated process of bereavement in Barker’s novel, where hauntology becomes a form of honte-ology, from the French honte, shame. In Gee’s beautifully melancholic novel, the haunting trauma of loss is subtly evoked by images of empty fields, neglected farms, urban vistas filled with spectral figures of unemployed veterans. Moreover, Earth and Heaven affects the reader so deeply because the understated pain of loss becomes movingly tangible after the accidental death of the central protagonist’s six-year-old son, which seems to “condense” the pain of war bereavements a decade after the conflict. My intention is also to demonstrate that Sebastian Faulks in Birdsong (1993), Esther Freud in Summer at Gaglow (1997) and Pat Barker in Another World (1998) approach the Great War as a phantom haunting their contemporary protagonists. The persistence of the unknown past has a profound impact on these characters and only by trying to relate to the Great War do they find answers to their existential dilemmas. This directs our attention to the incomplete processes of First World War mourning, the persistence of endless grief and the potential continuity of unresolved trauma(s) in transgenerational memory. The five novels under consideration also problematise the issue of silence-the unsayable family secret and/or the collective disregard for the national past. The psychoanalytic concept of crypt illuminates the relation between present and past in these fictions and makes it possible to draw a connection with the sociological concept of cultural trauma, referring to certain foundational events constructed as traumatic from the point of view of the British collectivity. 
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Literatura wielokulturowa? Diasporyczna? Transkanadyjska? Transkulturowość we współczesnej literaturze kanadyjskiej

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Branach-Kallas A.
ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura
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2008
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issue 17
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Anna Branach-Kallas  Multicultural? Diasporic? Transcanadian Literature?Transcultural Dialogue in Contemporary Canadian Fiction  Anna Branach-Kallas situates the analysis of Canadian racial minorities’ literature in a transcultural perspective. The author focuses on the postcolonial, diasporic and transnational aspects of minority discourses. She maintains that to view Candian literature from the theoretical perspective of diaspora and postcolonial studies allows to highlight the relation between the concept of nation and minority, to research cultural conflicts and hybrid identities and the modern mutations of colonial rhetoric. The purpose of such studies is not simply to assert that immigration and alterity are central to Canadian culture, but to reveal the differences between various diasporas and to indicate that racial conflict is fundamental to the history of Canadian nation. The author argues that the category of race applied to the study of Canadian literature provides an important analytical tool to transcend the provincionality of Canadian literature and to highlight the transcultural character of Canadian culture. The article analyses the concepts of multiculturalism, diasporic citizenship and global diasporas. It also scrutinises the notion of “TransCanada” launched recently by Smaro Kamboureli. Branach-Kallas claims that the transnational and transcultural focus of the “TransCanada” project has the potential to foreground the complexity of Canadian literature and culture, the intricate relations of the Canadian diasporas with other nations, and the involvement of Canada in modernity and globalisation.
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Anna Branach-Kallas  Multicultural? Diasporic? Transcanadian Literature?Transcultural Dialogue in Contemporary Canadian Fiction  Anna Branach-Kallas situates the analysis of Canadian racial minorities’ literature in a transcultural perspective. The author focuses on the postcolonial, diasporic and transnational aspects of minority discourses. She maintains that to view Candian literature from the theoretical perspective of diaspora and postcolonial studies allows to highlight the relation between the concept of nation and minority, to research cultural conflicts and hybrid identities and the modern mutations of colonial rhetoric. The purpose of such studies is not simply to assert that immigration and alterity are central to Canadian culture, but to reveal the differences between various diasporas and to indicate that racial conflict is fundamental to the history of Canadian nation. The author argues that the category of race applied to the study of Canadian literature provides an important analytical tool to transcend the provincionality of Canadian literature and to highlight the transcultural character of Canadian culture. The article analyses the concepts of multiculturalism, diasporic citizenship and global diasporas. It also scrutinises the notion of “TransCanada” launched recently by Smaro Kamboureli. Branach-Kallas claims that the transnational and transcultural focus of the “TransCanada” project has the potential to foreground the complexity of Canadian literature and culture, the intricate relations of the Canadian diasporas with other nations, and the involvement of Canada in modernity and globalisation.
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Insular Arcadias: Islands in the Great War Fiction of J.‑M. G. Le Clézio and Pat Barker

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Branach-Kallas A.
Romanica Silesiana
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2015
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vol. 10
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The aim of my article is to explore the representation of the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues in The Prospector (1985) by French writer Jean‑Marie Gustave Le Clézio and of the Solomon Islands in the Regeneration trilogy (1991-1995) by a British writer Pat Barker. Both Le Clézio and Barker use and challenge the pastoral recourses belonging to the tradition of Great War writing and the convention of idealising remote Arcadian lands. Several insular myths are thus undermined by the two writers, who thus resituate remote islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as integral parts of European modernity. Key words:  island, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Solomon Islands, Eddystone Island, Great War, pastoral, modernity
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Françoise Lionnet, “Le su et l’incertain. Cosmopolitiques créoles de l’Océan Indien/The Known and the Uncertain. Creole Cosmopolitics of the Indian Ocean,” L’Atelier de l’écriture, La Pelouse, Trou d’Eau Douce, Île Maurice, 2012, 320 p., ISBN...

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Branach-Kallas A.
Romanica Silesiana
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2015
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vol. 10
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Polish Immigrants’ Search for the Peaceable Kingdom: Andrew J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue

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Branach-Kallas A.
TransCanadiana
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2013
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issue 6
193-206
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L’article est une étude du recueil de nouvelles Copernicus Avenue (2011) de Andrew J. Borkowski, écrivain canadien d’origine polonaise. L’analyse se concentre sur l’évolution de la diaspora polonaise à Toronto après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et sur les efforts des immigrants pour reconstruire leur existence au Canada. L’article commence par un aperçu historique sur l’immigration polonaise dans les années d’après-guerre et sur la législation concernant ce groupe ethnique. On vise à analyser les histoires individuelles des refugiés polonais et leur assmilation au Canada à l’exemple de Thadeus Mienkiewicz, le personnage principal de Copernicus Avenue. Discriminé et humilié, Thadeus rêve d’une identité canadienne interprétée comme liberté et succès. Dans Copernicus Avenue, Borkowski établit aussi un dialogue fascinant entre les diasporas polonaise et irlandaise, fondé sur leur expérience d’exclusion sociale partagée. Les concepts de migration et d’identité diasporique sont étudiés du point de vue du constructivisme et des théories du trauma.
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From Colony to Camp, From Camp to Colony: First World War Captivity in Ahmed Ben Mostapha, goumier by Mohammed Bencherif

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Branach-Kallas A.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2021
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issue 30(3)
25-46
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This article offers an analysis of the representation of captivity in Ahmed Ben Mostapha, goumier. The novel, published by Algerian writer Mohammed Bencherif in 1920, was partly inspired by his own experience as a prisoner of war during the First World War. Relying on historical, sociological and anthropological sources, the article focuses on the protagonist’s experience as a POW in German camps and in Switzerland. It also proposes a metaphorical interpretation of captivity in the colonial context, reading Ben Mostapha as a “conscript of modernity,” conditioned by French republican ideals. Fi- nally, it examines thought-provoking analogies between colony and camp in Bencherif’s novel.
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1914 – anty-opera Wielkiej Wojny

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Branach-Kallas A.
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
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2014
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issue 4(22)
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RecenzjaJean Echenoz, 1914, przeł. Anna Michalska, Wydawnictwo Noir sur Blanc, Warszawa 2014, ss. 74
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La possession par les « pouvoirs de l’horreur » de la Grande Guerre

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Branach-Kallas A., Sadkowski P.
Romanica Silesiana
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2016
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vol. 11
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issue 1
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In this article, we aim to analyse the representations of the First World War as a cultural trauma in three works of fiction classified as belonging to the “néofantastique” convention, which, according to Jean-Pierre Andrevon, summarises “our fears and uncertainties”. We intend to demonstrate that in La scie patriotique (1997), by Nicole Caligaris, La vigie (1998) and by Thierry Jonquet, Cris (2001) by Laurent Gaudé, the Great War is approached either explicitly or metaphorically, yet at the same time indicative of the phenomena of spectre and abjection. Key words : Great War, spectre, abjection, fantastic fiction
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